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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:10:15 AM EDT
Many thanks to Combatdiver as most of these pics are his. Please contribute your own if you have any.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:14:19 AM EDT
[#1]
I spy 1911 goodness.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:14:34 AM EDT
[#2]
Wow is that an essortment that looks to cover everything from WWI though today... I see German, Russian, American, and various oddballs in there... very cool and tag for later!
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:15:55 AM EDT
[#3]
Iraq's a living weapons museum - if one was ever built (as a production item), there's probably one there.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:18:52 AM EDT
[#4]
Love the Sterlings!!
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:19:23 AM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
I spy 1911 goodness. There's a lot of 1911s in Iraq, mostly told to be leftovers from when we were giving arms to the Iraqis. Back when more contractors were rolling armed I knew one guy that had picked up a rather nice '44 Remington Rand on the local market. Getting .45 ammo, on the other hand, wasn't near as easy. |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:19:51 AM EDT
[#6]
Home view tag.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:21:29 AM EDT
[#7]
Wow...STG-44, Papasha...crazy stuff.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:22:06 AM EDT
[#8]
There even seems to be a side lock musket, flint perhaps in the 3rd from bottom pic. All neat stuff, especially the cut down PPsH41.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:22:51 AM EDT
[#9]
I spied an MP44 getting a workout.
Hax |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:22:59 AM EDT
[#10]
The guy with the Stg/MP44 is a member here and has posted that pic. Combat Diver IIRC?
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:24:13 AM EDT
[#11]
Quoted: Wow...STG-44, Papasha...crazy stuff. I would seriously be struggling not to break some import laws if I saw that.  |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:24:37 AM EDT
[#12]
I'll take the Tabuk, the PPsH, the Sterling, the....
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:24:59 AM EDT
[#13]
cool pictures.
Imagine the cool stuff when they start confiscating guns here,,,, |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:26:32 AM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
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Wow...STG-44, Papasha...crazy stuff. I would seriously be struggling not to break some import laws if I saw that.
Or the '44 Remington Rand someone else mentioned. |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:26:49 AM EDT
[#15]
The only two I consider that "unusual" would be the PA-63, essentialy because it's a sub-gun that operates like an overgrown semi-automatic pistol with a "slide" instead of a bolt, and the SKS "pistol".
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:27:16 AM EDT
[#16]
How well do they inspect the mail that comes in and goes out? Does Iraq have a FedEx hub? Ship it back one piece at a time. If only America was a free country that still let men have souvineers. Hell, I'd go over there just to plunder like the generations before me have. When my family went overseas in war, if it wasn't nailed down, it was taken, and pry bars were taken to what was nailed down.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:28:13 AM EDT
[#17]
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cool pictures. Imagine the cool stuff when they start confiscating guns here,,,, +1 
At least my corpse would be in the pic! |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:29:27 AM EDT
[#18]
That's a bunch of Enfields in the first pic.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:29:36 AM EDT
[#19]
AvengeR15 is Johnny-on-the-Spot with pics. Thanks and cool thread! |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:29:51 AM EDT
[#20]
Quoted: How well do they inspect the mail that comes in and goes out? Does Iraq have a FedEx hub? Ship it back one piece at a time. If only America was a free country that still let men have souvineers. Hell, I'd go over there just to plunder like the generations before me have. When my family went overseas in war, if it wasn't nailed down, it was taken, and pry bars were taken to what was nailed down. Ive heard soldiers say their mail was denied when they sent back M4 handguards and the like...good luck getting a PPSH out of there... |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:33:21 AM EDT
[#21]
I hate even thinking about what's going to happen to that Sturmgewehr.
I wonder if that's also a real MG42 or if it's just an MG3. |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:36:00 AM EDT
[#22]
If the US got invaded and they took all the guns away from citizens the odd ball guns like this would go on for page after page and would be amazing. I'm not the only one that's sad?
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:37:43 AM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:
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How well do they inspect the mail that comes in and goes out? Does Iraq have a FedEx hub? Ship it back one piece at a time. If only America was a free country that still let men have souvineers. Hell, I'd go over there just to plunder like the generations before me have. When my family went overseas in war, if it wasn't nailed down, it was taken, and pry bars were taken to what was nailed down. Ive heard soldiers say their mail was denied when they sent back M4 handguards and the like...good luck getting a PPSH out of there... How far is it to the nearest place you can send a USPS International package? With all the tonnage USPS handles, there's almost no possibilty of it being inspected in any meaningful way. Maybe sniff pallets with dogs for bombs, but that's probably it. If you went around the Army's PO, I'd imagine it might not be too hard to send a gun back, especially if you took it apart and did seperate shipments, but this is pure speculation and I wouldn't dream of bringing the ATF's ire down upon myself. 
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:44:38 AM EDT
[#24]
Saddam Hussein !!! Pimp My AK !!!
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:49:25 AM EDT
[#25]
My cousin lived in the Green Zone for 4 months. When he first arrived he met the guy who had his position who was rotating out. The guy made it a point to say that he had a "footlocker" in their quarters and that he "would be back for it". No big deal.
Months go by and one day my cousin and another guy who were now sharing the accommodations were "remodeling" the place- moving things around and they decided to move the "footlocker" which was some kind of long box made out of plywood. In the process of moving it they managed to drop it- heavy as a mofo....it broke open. A shitload of live grenades spilled out.....there were "several" folding stock AK's with mags and ammo, about a half dozen pistols of various types, a couple of Sterlings and several blocks of plastic explosives...... They called the MP's. Never found out exactly what happened to the guy. I think there is a hell of alot more of that stuff floating around the good 'ole USA than you might think. |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:50:32 AM EDT
[#26]
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I hate even thinking about what's going to happen to that Sturmgewehr. I wonder if that's also a real MG42 or if it's just an MG3. I'd be perfectly happy to have "just" an MG3.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:52:59 AM EDT
[#27]
On a second look through at the pictures, I'm not so sure my No4Mk1 didn't come from Iraqistan
It's dirty as fuck and looks like it was dragged through asscrackistan and back. |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 9:56:04 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:05:37 AM EDT
[#29]
wow that would be a trip trying to shoot that sawed off ppsh
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:06:07 AM EDT
[#30]
it's a real fucking shame that we have all the gun laws that we do here in the "land of the free", but it's an even bigger shame that our men and women fighting for us aren't allowed to keep whatever the fuck they want. you want that sterling? why not. you earned it! and here's four more for your troubles... |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:08:21 AM EDT
[#31]
Tag for later/better internet.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:11:04 AM EDT
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kpv with some parts missing? |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:11:44 AM EDT
[#33]
air rifle?
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:12:02 AM EDT
[#34]
Is that a flintlock rifle on the left in the third pic from the bottom?
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:12:52 AM EDT
[#35]
MG-42
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:14:20 AM EDT
[#36]
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Is that a flintlock rifle on the left in the third pic from the bottom? I'm sure it's a nonfunctional replica the middle east is full of them |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:16:57 AM EDT
[#37]
Whats with all the "blinged out" AK's over there?
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:20:14 AM EDT
[#38]
man I'd give my left nut to bring home a few of those bad boys...
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:22:05 AM EDT
[#39]
I have to assume the SKS "pistol" is manually operated.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:23:04 AM EDT
[#40]
i can honestly say,, I shot as good as I do ....due to the air rifle and JROTC. and the grumpy ass old man that took the time to explain WHY I had to click 3 up and 4 left or what ever the situation was. < it may or may not be true.. but i believe it > |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:24:05 AM EDT
[#41]
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There even seems to be a side lock musket, flint perhaps in the 3rd from bottom pic. All neat stuff, especially the cut down PPsH41. You're right that really is a musket!
That last ambush attempt must've been a bitch for the last owner.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:24:25 AM EDT
[#42]
Me in 2004:
 They wouldn't let me keep it |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:28:08 AM EDT
[#43]
Is there an MP-18 towards the bottom?
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:29:02 AM EDT
[#44]
Oh man... what I wouldn't give for that Polish Pm-63.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:32:56 AM EDT
[#45]
Good luck trying to mail anything gun related home- one of my buddies doing private security was given a lot of grief shipping his EOTech and Surefire handguards home even though he had the receipts for them in hand. Supposedly they x-ray everything leaving; I left at the end of 2005 and one of my trunks arrived home with a note on top and inside that they had opened it to inspect a magazine. Funny thing was they mislabeled it as an M16 mag when it was actually a Russian Bakelite AK mag. It made it home, but I wouldn't count on anything making it here now.
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:35:21 AM EDT
[#46]
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I spy 1911 goodness. There's a lot of 1911s in Iraq, mostly told to be leftovers from when we were giving arms to the Iraqis. Back when more contractors were rolling armed I knew one guy that had picked up a rather nice '44 Remington Rand on the local market. Getting .45 ammo, on the other hand, wasn't near as easy. I mostly found AK's when I was there and a fellow Marine found a cool Enfield that some Major took away from him. I did find some Makarov ammo which was a godsend since my gunner was only given like 13 rounds for his Beretta... we test fired the ammo from the Beretta and it was... adequate.
I would have loved to find a 1911 though! |
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:35:56 AM EDT
[#47]
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i can honestly say,, I shot as good as I do ....due to the air rifle and JROTC. and the grumpy ass old man that took the time to explain WHY I had to click 3 up and 4 left or what ever the situation was. < it may or may not be true.. but i believe it > Plus, I am sure there are a metric shit ton of rats and those scary ass camel spiders over there that don't require a mag dump out of an AK or M4
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:37:03 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:38:18 AM EDT
[#49]
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Plus, I am sure there are a metric shit ton of rats and those scary ass camel spiders over there that don't require a mag dump out of an AK or M4 Says you, sucka. Mag dumps are required for camel spiders.
Or at least I think they should be. 
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Posted: 7/9/2009 10:39:11 AM EDT
[#50]
Great post. Just saying thanks.
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